A Problogger Mom

Amanda from PJMommy.com and The Blog World has tagged me! I feel quite honored, as this is my very first tag ever, so I hope I can do it correctly!

Here are the rules:

A. Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves.

B. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed.

C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Probloggermom Facts:

1. I am truly addicted to caffiene. It’s terrible. And I don’t even drink plain old coffee. I drink several cups of English Breakfast tea a day, plus at least one diet Pepsi, and of course sneak in a few latte’s throughout the week. Very very bad.

2. I went to college to study architecture. Loved it while in school. Hated it when I went to work in the real world. Worked for six years doing tenant improvement projects, lots of high stress, overtime and little pay.

3. I’m a reality TV junky. It started back in the day with Real World on MTV. Somehow I missed the first season of Survivor, (cause I was still working at the overworked architecture intern job probably!), but haven’t missed a show yet. Love Big Brother too. My summer indulgence! HA!

4.  I’m smart, not cheap (borrowing Michelle’s Blog Name!) and very thrifty. Love to get good deals on things. Shop garage sales, thrift stores, outlet stored and grocery shop the stockpile method. I hate to pay full price for anything.

5.  My dream car is the Volkswagon Tuareg though.

6.  I was once stranded on an Island in Fiji. My parents divorced when I was 8, and my dad had been in one of the first Peace Corps groups in the early 60’s. After they divorced, he got back into the Peace Corps and USAID for many years. We (my brother and I) would get to visit him in exotic places. One summer we were visiting in Fiji and we went to visit a couple of Peace Corps volunteers on a remote island, and due to a storm, the boat never came back to get us. Our one week trip to that island turned into a 4 week trip, and we only got out by taking a small (row boat size) fishing boat with a tiny motor 8 hrs across the open sea to the next island with an airstrip.

7.  I don’t think I could ever go back to the workforce and work for somebody else. After doing Ebay for 5 yrs, I prefer the entrepreneurial route 1000%.

8.  I hate the cold. I am always cold, and prefer temps to be HOT than cold on any given day. Luckily we live in the Pacific NW where it is very moderate, and our average winter temp is about 40. I couldn’t live where it was any colder!

 I am tagging: Michelle at Smart, Not Cheap, Hipmommy at The Hipmommy Place, Agent Sully at Life Learning Today, Supermom_in_NY at Getting out of debt, JD at GetRichSlowly.com, EJ Cooksey at Make Money Online The Quick and Easy Way! and Nikki at Chaos in the Country